Quotes About Parenting

My folks, I don't think my mom or my dad ever missed a little league game or a football game.

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

That is the one missing link in my life. I wish I had spent more time with my children.

Clearly, a dog is not a child and can never be mistaken as one.

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

My kids know they can't make the same mistakes I've made. They've been through a lot with me always being on the road.

As parents, you want to try to mitigate your children's pain.

I'm like a Mr. Mom. I get up and help out, getting the milk together and changing diapers. I've even learned to mix baby formulas and stuff like that.

I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.

I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.

Kids definitely grow out of their clothes really quickly, so I'm all about mixing and matching.

Having two kids is like having 1000. It's just scheduling, moving around, being mobile.

When I'm at home, I am in full Dad mode, and I love it.

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

If I'm working in the city, then as soon as I'm home, I try to lock in on my son for a few hours. Every day. I see how important it is that he's starting to come into my world now. It's just an effort to give him that male mode of being.

As parents, we tend to be in Tell rather than Listen mode.

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

My mother has been an advocate for me as far as modeling goes.

Role modelling for your kids is so essential.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.